In the opening volume of Proust's great novel, the narrator travels backwards in time in order to tell the story of a love affair that had taken place before his own birth. Swann's jealous love for Odette provides a prophetic model of the narrator's own relationships. All Proust's great themes - time and memory, love and loss, art and the artistic vocation - are here in kernel form.
- ISBN10 1841598968
- ISBN13 9781841598963
- Publish Date 29 June 2001
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 11 March 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Everyman's Library
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 700
- Language English